Case Study 6- The American Revolution

King George III

King of England during the American Revolution

George Washington

1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)

13 colonies

The original states (13 areas of land that were colonised by the British) : Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia.

Plantations

Land used for agriculture

Indentured Servants

British people who go to America to work off their debt

Indigenous People

native people

Cash Crops

Crops grown to be sold and traded

Convict labour

Labour by convicts as a punishment

Navigation Act (1760s)

Only British goods can be imported into America

Stamp Tax (1765)

Limits westward expansion and accessing new farmlands

Boston Tea Party (1773)

American colonists calling themselves the Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawk Native Americans, boarded three British ships and dumped British tea into the Boston harbor.

Minutemen

local American militia

Lexington Incident (1775)

20,000 minutemen fired on the British Army to defend their gunpowder- starts the American War of Independence

Militia

general term for American army

Battle of Yorktown (1781)

Marks the end of the 7 year American War of Independence

Charles Cornwallis

Commanding general of the British forces that were defeated at Yorktown in 1781, ending the American Revolution.

Thomas Jefferson

Wrote the Declaration of Independence and is a founding father

Legal/ Political causes of the American Revolution

\- Navigation Act

\- Stamp Tax

\- Treaties

\- Lack of representation in Parliament

Actions of the British causes of the American Revolution

\- Indentured servants

\- Boston Massacre

\- Trading, selling and stealing American cash crops

\- British closed the Boston port after the Boston Tea Party damaging the economy

\- Attempt to seize gunpowder at Concord in 1775

Economic causes of the American Revolution

\- The Navigation Act

\- Stamp Tax

\- Trading, selling and stealing American cash crops

\- British closed the Boston port after the Boston Tea Party damaging the economy

What happened during the American Revolution (part 1)

\- British emigrated to the 13 colonies and the used cash crops to earn money

\- Indentured servants and convict labour was used, later slaves were used more especially in the South

\- Some colonies became penal colonies

\- Americans wanted the removal of Stamp Tax and the Navigation Act and wanted more representation in Parliament

\- 1770: Boston Massacre

\- 1773: Boston Tea Party- the colonists dress up as indigenous people and threw tea overboard British ships

What happened during the American Rvolution? (part two)

\- 1775: The Lexington Incident- 20,000 minutemen fired on the British Army to defend their gunpowder

\- 1776: The Founding Fathers met in Congress and issued the declaration of independence and freed the 13 colonies

\- "All men are equal" but only landowners can votes and slavery was not abolished

\- 1781: Battle of Yorktown- marks the end of the 7 year American War of Independence. The French navy blocked the British preventing supplies by sea. Cornwallis was forced to surrender

\-1783: The USA is formed as a new independent country and the US constitution is set up

\- America became an important trading partner with Britain and Britain invested more in Indian and developed Australia as a penal colony

Events that show violent methods of protest

\- Battle of Yorktown

\- Lexington Incident

\- Minutemen

Events that show non-violent methods of protest

\- Boston Tea Party

\- Declaration of Independence

\- Propaganda

Short Term Outcomes of the American Revolution

\- Establishment of the USA (Declaration of Independence 1776, Constitution 1783)

\- No hereditary monarch

\- Elected leader

\- Successful democratic republic

\- Successful non-violent protest

Long Term Outcomes of the American Revolution

\- Successful republic founded on democratic principles

\- Development of new ideas (liberty, suffrage, representation, freedom

\- Influences French Revolution 1789

\- Overthrowing monarchy

\-Establishment of republics

\- Trade links and economic growth (global superpower)